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The Garden of Evening Mists is the second English-language novel by Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng, first published in November 2011. The book follows protagonist Teoh Yun Ling, who was a prisoner of the Japanese during the World War II, and later became a judge overseeing war crimes cases. Seeking after the war to create a garden in memory of ...
The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the Malay Operation (馬来作戦, Maree Sakusen), was a military campaign fought by Allied and Axis forces in Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 15 February 1942 during the Second World War. It was dominated by land battles between British Commonwealth army units and the Imperial Japanese ...
During the occupation the Japanese replaced the Malayan dollar with their own version. [ 63] Prior to occupation, in 1941, there was about Malaya $219 million in circulation. Japanese currency officials estimated that they had put $7,000 to $8,000 million into circulation during occupation.
The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti-British National Liberation War[ 1] (1948–1960), was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British Empire and Commonwealth. The communists fought to win independence ...
Coordinates: 5°53′19″N 118°2′50″E. Layout of the POW camp. The Sandakan camp, also known as Sandakan POW Camp ( Malay: Kem Tawanan Perang Sandakan ), was a prisoner-of-war camp established during World War II by the Japanese in Sandakan in the Malaysian state of Sabah. This site has gained notoriety as the Sandakan Death Marches ...
Before the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific, the island of Borneo was divided into five territories. Four of the territories were in the north and under British control – Sarawak, Brunei, Labuan, an island, and British North Borneo; while the remainder, and bulk, of the island, was under the jurisdiction of the Dutch East Indies.
Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. “More than six million women took wartime jobs in factories, three million volunteered with the Red Cross, and over 200,000 served in the military.”. [ 1] The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute ...
Angus & Robertson. Publication date. 1954. Publication place. Australia. White Coolies is a 1954 memoir by Australian nurse Betty Jeffrey about her experiences in World War Two. [1] This included surviving the sinking of the Vyner Brook, escaping a massacre, and being in a camp on Sumatra. [2]